NAFTA Boy by Claes AndreassonThe pact went into force at the start of 1994 and NAFTA Boy has been complaining about it ever since. "NAFTA has meant middle-class Mexicans buying Chinese-made products in U.S. malls and idle Americans going to Tijuana to buy counterfeit medicine and plastic surgery at cheap prices. Sounds like free trade to me!"

Burning Man and the Gift Economy from Making ContactThere is no commerce allowed at Burning Man. Its one of the mostunusual economic structures in the world -- they call it a 'gift economy.' Larry Harvey, one of the festival's founders, tells us how it works.